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    In case anyone comes here looking for an answer, this answer did not solve the same issue inside a VirtualBox machine. You should instead download gparted iso, set it as an optical drive, start the VM and resize the guest partition manually using the GUI. Commented Feb 6, 2019 at 22:03
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    It does not work if you only have one drive. Your answer is 100% correct, I was just adding a hint for anyone looking for the same problem inside VirtualBox, as I was. Commented Feb 6, 2019 at 22:30
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    I'm running into the same issue with a virtual box machine. resize2fs just says "the filesystem is already *** (4k) bolcks long. Nothing to do!". Commented Jan 10, 2022 at 20:48
  • What I suspect is you're finding this Q&A too verbose and confusing, and not following the same steps as the person did in the edited question. 1: "used fdisk /dev/vdb to extend its only partition /dev/vdb1 to full capacity of 2TB from previous 1TB". 2: reboot. 3: resize2fs. Commented Jan 11, 2022 at 10:19
  • @chech Edited as per above comment, please re-read. To be crystal clear, I suspect you're wrong to say that you had the same issue. If we want to include a signpost to how you extend partitions using fdisk /dev/vdb, I think we'd better edit the question. Commented Jan 11, 2022 at 10:50